delegate who offered the language in support of providing defensive weapons to ukraine states it was removed at the insistence of the trump campaign. later j.d. gordon admits opposing the inclusion of the provision at the time it was being debate and prior to its being removed. later in july, and after the convention, the first stolen e-mails detrimental to hillary clinton appear on wikileaks. a hacker who goes by the moniker guccifer 2.0 claims responsibility for hacking the dnc and giving the documents to wikileaks. the leading private cyber security firms including crowdstracrow crowdstrike and threatconnect:00 with high certainty it was the work of apt 28 and apt 29 who are known to be russian intelligence services. the u.s. intelligence community also later confirms that the documents in fact stolen by russian intelligence and guccifer 2.0 acted as a front.